Daily Verb Lesson: French for sprinkle is parsemer

The French for sprinkle is the irregular ER verb parsemer.
To remember this, imagine the chef sprinkles PARSLEY over the food!Parsemer can also mean: to strew with, to scatter.Related words include:
- parsemer de persil haché : to sprinkle with parsley.
Some ER verbs ending in -ecer, -emer, -ener, -eper, -erer, -eser, -ever and -evrer add a grave accent to the mute letter e(è) before a silent syllable. This changes it to an open sound.
Examples of this family of verb conjugations: mener, emmener, remmener, ramener, parsemer de, achever, grever.

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to sprinkle: parsemer Imagine the chef sprinklesPARSLEY over the food!

✔ parsemer is a regular ER verb. There are over 5,000 ER verbs these being the most common verbs in French. ✔
Learn parsemer and it will reinforce the pattern for ALL those other ER verbs. ✔
Do these verbs every day for a month and you will have a solid knowledge of the ER verbs' conjugation patterns.

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